The Politics of Ritual 9780691198927, 9780691198910, 9780691248929, 0691198926

The Politics of Ritual 0691198918, 9780691198910

An illuminating look at the transformative role that rituals play in our political lives The Politics of Ritual is a ma

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Ritual, Politics, and Power 9780300159707

In the most comprehensive study of political ritual yet written, David I. Kertzer explains why ritual has been and will

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The Politics of Reproductive Ritual [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520311732

"A welcome addition. They argue that rituals of reproduction in preindustrial societies are essentially political.

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Showing signs of violence: the cultural politics of a twentieth-century headhunting ritual 9780520200418, 9780520203617

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The relic state: St Francis Xavier and the politics of ritual in Portuguese India 9781526112170

Explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colo

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The Tantric ritual of Japan : feeding the gods, the Shingon fire ritual 9788185179766, 818517976X

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The Interpretation of Ritual 0415513987, 9780415513982

A revival of interest in primitive religion has been one of the most marked characteristics of British social anthropolo

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The Myth of Ritual Murder 9780300161915

From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, German Jews were persecuted and tried for the alleged ritual mu

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Politics and ritual in early medieval Europe 9780907628590

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The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic 0713448709

The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic is an archaeological study of the material evidence for ritual and magical practices

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